What are the speakers talking about? A. ...

What’s the time now?

A. 10:10.    B. 10:30.    C. 11:00.

How does the man prefer to go to work?

A. By car.    B. By bus.    C. On foot.

假设你是红星中学高一学生李华，你的美国好友Jack在给你的邮件中提到他在选修中国国画，打算在展示课上介绍下面三幅国画中的一幅，希望你能给些建议。请给他回邮件，内容包括：

（1）推荐一幅作品；

（2）介绍该作品内容；

（3）给出推荐理由。

注意：（1）词数不少于50；（2）开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

提示词：work（作品），dragonfly（蜻蜓），bamboo（竹子）

Dear Jack,

I’m very happy to know that

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Yours,

Li Hua

阅读下面的短文和问题，根据短文内容和每小题后的具体要求，完成对该问题的回答。

How Bad Are Energy Drinks for Children?

What Are Energy Drinks?

There is no clear definition of what makes an energy drink, but it is usually taken that anything non alcoholic with more than 150mg of caffeine per litre is an energy drink. The first of its kind was Lucozade, which was launched in 1927. It was promoted as helping the sick to get better by regaining lost energy. Now there are lots of energy drinks on the market, all claiming to help boost energy levels and aid our performance.

What’s in Energy Drinks?

We’ve mentioned the caffeine but energy drinks also contain water and sugar. Some also contain alts and amino acids.

What Are the Health Concerns?

The concerns focus on the two main ingredients (成分) of energy drinks, caffeine and sugar. Too much caffeine for children can in the short term cause headaches and raise blood pressure although it is important to mention that caffeine may not harm children in the long term. However, the short term issues do really worry teachers as caffeine can lead to an inability to sleep, which then affects a child’s ability to focus and concentrate in class. In fact the maximum recommended (推荐) intake of caffeine for children is 2.5mg for every kilogram a child weighs, so if a child drinks energy drinks. it would be very easy to go over this dose.

Too much sugar can also cause health problems including obesity, tooth decay and in the long run Type 2 diabetes. So as with caffeine, if children are drinking energy drinks and consuming sugar in foods and other drinks, then it would be easy to go over the daily sugar allowance for a child. The thing to be aware of is what is called free sugars. Free sugars are those sugars which are added to foods or drinks, not the natural sugar found in fruits and vegetables. The amount of free sugar that a child should have is 19 grams per day for those aged 4-6 and 24 grams for those aged 7-10. So again it is easy to see that if children are drinking energy drinks over and above sugar that will be present in food they eat, it would be easy to go over the recommended amount of sugar each day.

Selling Energy Drinks to Children

There are currently voluntary bans for shops not to sell energy drinks to children under 16, but there are calls to make this illegal. Some schools have already banned children from bringing these drinks into school.

1.What do energy drinks claim to do? (不多于9个词)

2.Why are teachers worried about too much caffeine in energy drinks?

3.What is the recommended amount of free sugar for an8-year- -old child? (不多于2个词)

What Is Social Media?

Not many people ask the question “what is social media?” anymore. Social media has been around for years now, and most of us would probably describe it as any Internet medium that can be used to share information with others, including blogs, forums, applications, games, websites and other stuff.

But let me ask you this: what exactly is so “social” about sitting before a computer setting up a blog and blogging for days without anybody reading it, or scrolling through your Facebook feed of information from 500 friends you barely know? If you ask me, it can be way more anti-social than anything.

Social media is not a “thing”. It’s not just Facebook, WeChat and Weibo It’s more of a frame of mind and a state of being. It’s about how you use it to improve your relationships with other people in real life. However, we tend to rely on technology and social media so much that it can actually tear apart those relationships.

Social media isn’t about numbers. When someone says “social media,” web giants like Facebook, Twitter, WeChat and Weibo instantly pop into our minds, often because they have more updates, more friends, more followers, more links, more photos, more everything. We tend to get distracted by the number game, thinking “volume, volume, volume”. It’s led to a lot of meaningless noise and information overload. As the old saying goes, quality over quantity is usually the way to go. So, social media is not just about lots of people aimlessly pushing around lots of information.

Social media needs to have an “IRL” factor-an Internet slang standing for “In Real Life”. It should affect how a person thinks or acts offline. After all, social media shouldn’t be an end in itself. It was built to enhance your actual social life, in real life. Take for example an event that a person attends because they are invited by the host on Facebook through a Facebook event page. Something like that definitely has the IRL factor. Likewise, a WeChat photo that touches someone so much that they feel the need to bring it up and describe it to someone else during a dinner date also has the IRL factor.

So, is it really considered to be social to spend an hour scrolling through photos on Weibo, with no thoughtful or emotional effect and no interaction with others? In fact, there is no wall between real life and Internet life where true social media exists. Social media is not a specific place on the Internet or just a thing you use to see what other people are doing. It’s all about creating meaningful experiences and relationships wherever you may be.

1.What does the underlined phrase “tear apart” in Paragraph 3 mean in the text?

A. Destroy.    B. Change.

C. Continue.    D. Strengthen.

2.The writer thinks that social media should be ________.

A. a number of websites where people communicate

B. a set of social tools like Facebook. WeChat and Weibo

C. a collection of online applications where ideas are exchanged

D. a group name for online platforms used to strengthen meaningful relationships

3.According to the author, which of the following cases has an IRL factor?

A. Updating Facebook on a regular basis.

B. Following new friends in real life on Facebook.

C. Visiting a museum with friends after reading a story on Weibo.

D. Reading Twitter to see what other people are doing and thinking about.

4.What is the author’s purpose of writing this article?

A. To explain the importance of social media.

B. To inform the negative effects of social media.

C. To call on readers to use social media to promote real social life.

D. To encourage readers to interact with others in real life more often.